100% Gamay. Being on the border of the Moulin-à-Vent cru, the core of Roilette’s Fleurie terroir is atypical of Fleurie, rich in clay and the mineral manganese instead of all granite; the wines are thus more structured than many Fleurie wines. This bottling comes from vines averaging 30 to 45 years...

100% Roussanne. Jean-Paul Brun planted Roussanne vines in 2000 on the clay-limestone soils typical of his home village of Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. They are farmed organically and harvested by hand. The whole clusters are pressed and fermented in cement tank with a pied de cuve started...

100% Pinot Noir. Brun is clearly best known for his Gamay, but he planted Pinot Noir on the clay-limestone soils of his estate vineyard in Charnay in the southern Beaujolais in 1991; there are now a total of 3 hectares. As for all Terres Dorées reds, the vinification is traditional Burgundian. The...

100% Gamay. The cru of Moulin-à-Vent is generally considered the source of the potentially longest-lived, most structured Beaujolais. Here Jean-Paul farms 4 hectares of 30-to-45-year-old vines whose roots break through the compact, old granite rock underlying the sandy granite topsoils. As for all...

100% Gamay. Fleurie is one of Jean-Paul's two largest cru holdings, with 6 hectares all in the famous lieu-dit of Grille Midi, a south-facing amphitheater of vines on poor, sandy, decomposed-granite soils over hard granite rock. The difference between this regular Fleurie bottling and his Grille...

100% Gamay. Fleurie is one of Jean-Paul's two largest cru holdings: 6 hectares all within the famous lieu-dit of Grille Midi. Grille Midi is a sunny, hot, south-facing amphitheater of vines on poor, sandy, decomposed-granite soils over hard granite rock. It yields Gamay of power and structure, the...

100% Gamay. Two parcels of Morgon go into this bottling, one on the famous Côte du Py hill and one in a different climat, both having sandy, decomposed-granite soils. The vinification is traditional Burgundian. The grapes are rigorously sorted and destemmed, crushed and fermented with indigenous...

100% Gamay. From Desvignes' three oldest parcels, planted in 1912 and 1914 and totalling 0.8 hectare in the historic Morgon lieu-dit of Javernières at the foot of the famous hill of Côte du Py. The soils are much heavier and stickier with iron-rich red clay here versus the more schistous "rotten...

100% Gamay. Desvignes farms 3 hectares on the Côte du Py, which is famous for its roche pourrie or "rotten rock" of manganese-rich, decomposed schist, which makes for notably structured, long-lived wines. Their parcels average 70 years old and have a cooler northeastern exposure at the top of the...

100% Gamay. This bottling from the celebrated climat of Corcelette is the first Desvignes wine from sourced fruit. They harvest the fruit by hand from a 0.8-hectare plot of 50-year-old vines on sandy pink granite soils on a south-facing slope (see the dark swatch on the gorgeous label) in the...

100% Chardonnay. Brother-sister team Claude Emmanuelle and Louis Benoît Desvignes have made the first white wine in the eight generations of the domaine. The vines are in the same vineyard as the Gamay for their also-new-in-2020 "L'Aube à Javernières". The 0.26-hectare plot of Chardonnay is on the...

100% Gamay. 2020 is the first vintage of "L'Aube à Javernières" and the first Desvignes wine to not be 100% cru Morgon. The .84-hectare parcel of 20-30-year-old vines grows in deep clay soils just outside the Morgon appellation on the edge of Javernières, which lies just below the Côte du Py hill...

100% Gamay from the south of Beaujolais. The Beau! strikes a nice balance of fruity strawberry notes with a saline minerality on thefinish.